Enabling And Disabling Plug-Ins - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 8.0 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Plug-in Information
Configuration Entry DN
Description
Configurable Options
Default Setting
Configurable Arguments
Dependencies
Performance Related Information
Further Information
Table 16.33. Details of URI Plug-in

16.2. Enabling and Disabling Plug-ins

To enable and disable plug-ins over LDAP using the Directory Server Console, do the following:
1. In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.
2. Double-click the Plugins folder in the navigation tree.
3. Select the plug-in from the Plugins list.
4. To disable the plug-in, clear the Enabled checkbox. To enable the plug-in, check this checkbox.
5. Click Save.
6. Restart the Directory Server.
service dirsrv restart instance_name
To disable or enable a plug-in through the command line, use the ldapmodify utility to edit the value
of the nsslapd-pluginEnabled attribute. For example:
ldapmodify -p 389 -D "cn=directory manager" -w secret -h ldap.example.com
dn: cn=ACL Plugin,cn=plugins,cn=config
changetype: modify
replace: nsslapd-pluginEnabled
nsslapd-pluginEnabled: on
The LDAP tools referenced in this guide are Mozilla LDAP, installed with Directory Server in the /usr/lib/mozldap directory
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (32-bit); directories for other platforms are listed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems also include LDAP tools from OpenLDAP. It is possible to use the OpenLDAP commands as
shown in the examples, but you must use the -x argument to disable SASL and allow simple authentication.
Description
cn=URI Syntax,cn=plugins,cn=config
Syntax for handling URIs (Unique Resource
Identifiers), including URLs (Unique Resource
Locators)
on | off
on
None
None
Do not modify the configuration of this plug-in.
Leave this plug-in running at all times.
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Enabling and Disabling Plug-ins
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Section 1.2, "LDAP Tool Locations". However,
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